Google Maps The cameras have captured some very interesting images in the past, which can be saved to mapping software and explored around the world, but this time the images gave police an additional clue leading to the arrests of two men in connection with the murder investigation. is given
The images in question were captured by a Google Maps car camera in October, showing a man leaning over the trunk of a car on a nearly deserted road in Spain, with a large, heavy object wrapped around it. There is what appears to be a white sheet or bag.
Police say they believe the object is linked to the death of a Cuban national living in Spain who was reported missing by a relative in late 2023.
According to the newspaper El País, the man was living in the northern Spanish municipality of Soria, where he had come with that hope. Tracking down a woman who is supposed to be his partner..
A relative of the missing man contacted police saying he had received some suspicious text messages from the man's phone saying he had met another woman and would leave Spain and turn off his phone.
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“This made the complainant suspect that the messages were not sent by the missing person and led him to it. report to the police,” the police said in a statement.
Last month, according to Reuters, there was a man and a woman He was initially arrested on suspicion of kidnapping.. On December 11, part of the man's dismembered body was found buried in the local village cemetery of Tajioku, confirming that he had been murdered.
Now the police say they are continuing the investigation. Possible roles The arrested person was dead. His statement, which was translated from Spanish to English, said he became aware of “images in the location application” that included “A vehicle was detected which may have been used during the commission of the offence.”
According to a BBC report, it was For the first time in 15 years That a Google Maps car drove through the streets of a small Spanish town, home to fewer than 60 people.
Police described the couple as “allegedly guilty of the crime of aggravated unlawful detention for failure to disclose the whereabouts of a missing person”, saying that one of the women arrested was the accomplice of the missing Cuban man. It turns out, and one person has been arrested. “I was involved in the detention.”
El Pace spoke to several residents of Tajueco, who told the outlet that they had seen photos on Google Maps but Didn't pay much attention to them before this week.
“We never thought he was doing anything and we didn't think anything of it,” said one resident, while another noted that “we didn't think there was anyone in the trunk picture. There will be a corpse.”
The investigation is still ongoing, police said, noting that the Google Maps photo was just one of several clues in the case.
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